What is the Greatest Happiness Principle? What point is Mill making about \"swin

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What is the Greatest Happiness Principle? What point is Mill making about "swine" and Epicurus? What does Mill mean by the statement: "If a better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"? Mill claims that a distinction between higher and lower pleasures is a necessary part of a "perfectly just conception of Utility or Happiness." Why does he add: "it [this distinction] is by no means an an indispensable condition to the acceptance of the utilitarian standard: for that standard is not the agent's own greatest happiness, but the greatest amount of happiness altogether." What does he mean? Does the fact that each of us desires his or her own happiness (assuming this is true) mean that we ought to desire the happiness of everyone else? Is it possible to be an "impartial spectator"? What is the role of education in Mill's view of utilitarianism? What is Mill's answer to questions about whether the principle of utility is capable of proof? Is hit answer sufficient? Compare to Bentham. What is Mill's position on virtue? Keep in mind he is reacting to those who claim virtue to be a good in itself and desirable for its own sake, i.e., that virtue is the highest principle in ethics (we will read about this later on in the term). Is Mill correct when he says there is nothing other than happiness that we desire for itself? (Review his argument, especially what he says about virtue, money, power, fame, etc.) your reading of the excerpt from On Liberty, what do you think Mill's main concerns was he worried about that would lead him to articulate his principles?

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According to Utilitarianism , happiness is the sole criterion to determine if the actions are right or wrong .

The greatest Happiness principle states that, the actions that promote utility are considered as moral , and the ones that promote its reverse are considered as immoral .

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